The adveventure begins

[Bergy]

spent the day driving around yesterday.... one of teh roomies in the cabin i am in for this weekend, (Im moving into a regular house today and sharing it with 3 others..)  wanted to go somewhere and i wanted to go somewhere so we just drove... got lost once but no biggie.. it's an island... the gps is nto that good here.. but oh welll...

Im going to be checking out of the hostel cabin thing i am in right now and going to a swap meet/farmers market thing...

then i am going to check into my new house, last one i hope, and then stay in the water till i clam up...

I havent really gone swiiming / snorkeling yet... i plan on doing that today. and tomorrow...

tuesday i will start talking to realator and look around for places to live long term.. although i am sure i wont get much info as no one wants to tralk about renting something in four months from now.. it will be, come back in four months...


i know...

anyways.. im ok... im kinda bummed at my friend again... i told him i would love to help do anythging anythime, and i find out he is replacing his steps into his house and instead of asking me for help or just letting me hang and give 'moral support' he had someone else with him...

i found out when he wanted his truck back an then let me use thier daughters car... it's like i am persona non gratis and non considered//


oh well, if they want to just ignore me and whatever, at least they let me use thier car... i would be pissed if i couldnt get a car and or a place to stay...

it's bad enough i have to plop down a grand for a place to live but to pay for a rental car for a month would kill me... that owuld be about $1500 for a car rental


I also had a little dram yessterday on the phone.. i called a dozen or more people lookin for a room to rent for the month and most folks didnt call me back, and when i got a room, i didnt return several peoples calls, and yesterday some lady called and when i answered she got all pissy that i didnt call her back and said, she had more then just a room for rent, and hung up...

wow... i cant get away from drama and attitutudes even in hawaii...

[Bergy]

and the daughter calls me yesterday am, too early.. time zone thing.. telling me she got her car broken into and they took her wallet an dmy check accout deposit slip.  and i think she was trying to figure otu how to get me to sign paperwork for her new / replacment license over a fax or something so she didnt hve to go back and forth to the dmv twice to get her license...

I know she was trying to figure some scheme out to help her..

oh well

[OCtrackiepacsg1]

Sorry to hear about everything that's happened. Hope you catch a break and can go snorkeling.

[Bergy]

oh, im snorkling... not for long periods at a time but a couple times each day... i get cold.. the wind is a little breezy, duh....

but, found some cool You better mean it as in 'donkey' tubes/tunnels.. i havent gone thru them yet.. not sure of my 'ability' or lack of...  hehehehe


they are about 15-20 ft long and cool looking...

one seems to have 'sky lights'... i can see them from the top when walking on the rocks/reef, and can see the starting of the tunnel and the ending out in the 'sharks cove'..and there are a couple skylights.. although i cant see the 'horizontal' connecting tunnel from the top...

not sure that makes sense..

im ok, having a blast although it is still 'alone'... it would be nive to share the but there are far less people here to share with.... i was hoping to spend time with the frinds and maybe meet some of their friends and whatever and find somedive buddys or golf buddy, but i guess i can walk up to folks and and meet them that way too.

I found my favorite burger joint... KUA AINA BURGERs  Damn good... i love the ortega burger... and the frys are perfect.. like shoestrings but totally crispy and greasy...  not the best thing for my gut but hey...

As for the stomach... it is not doing all that bad, not that great either... I have cramps and throw up every day or so.. maybe i can get a 'pass' if i can wake up before i start getting Nauseous and take a pill... the dr. said the medicine isnt a long term solution, and not sure what he means but if i can take it in time, i wont get sick, but about half the time i end up throwing up the pill.. arrggghhh

enough of the medical or at least the 'sick' medical issues...  The back, omg.. am i sore... my legs and feet are freakin killin me... i am hoping i am getting 'stronger' or more resistant to the pain or to getting past the 'limits' i have ...

I really want to do things, but end up doing them and then am really sore... i dont want to look like or be treated like an old man 'cripple' with all the young ones around here... i do get some 'UNCLE' name calling, but i am sure that is in jest or in respect or something like that...

anyways... I am totally sore today and was supposed to go SUP, (STAND UP PADDLING) today with one of the young boys here, but it was raining hard this morning when we were supposed to go, so i bailed out... i still dont like cold weather...even if it is just 70 degrees  hehehehehehehehehehe

Anyways... i am being ignored by my friend... i am not sure what happened there.. i am really sure i didnt do anything...i wasnt there long enough to do anything or say anything... but since i am left to guess, i am guessing my friends wife just dont like me... maybe she dont like my situation or whatever and or thinks i am old enough to do whatever without having or wanting or asking for help, which i did, and which my friend offered ....

I still have thier daughters car... although i feel guilty keeping it and or using it... i did put in car seat covers since i didnt want to get my sweaty, sand covered back all over it... so the least i could do is seat covers.. hawaiin style covers of course...   I would change the oil and rotate the tires too, but dont want to do something that they dont want me to do... not just polite issues but maybe they do things different??? Anyways, so much for stipping on toies.. i cant get away from that feeling... i walk on toes and eggshells all my life...

[Bergy]

friggin daughter... I am not sure what i have done that i deserve zero respect, and zero credibility an dthat everyone/anyone else gets more then me...

Hannah was telling me about her drama while getting her duplicate license, and how her car wouldnt start, (again for the third time).  I asked her if she kept on adding the fuel system cleaner i bought for her, and she said no.. her friends mother said not to use it... and that she knows someone who knows someone who will look at it and fix it.. (someday)...

so, even though i bought the stuff, and used it to start her car, when her car wouldnt start before, (the first time), and i told her to use it every other time she fills up her car, she chooses to listen to some friends mother, before she listens to me...

oh well.. maybe her friends mother will pay to fix the car.. and go pick her up when she is stuck somewhere...

I am so done listening to and hearing her and people talk down to me and or talk about me and or not not lisen or care about one effing thing i say...


like maybe something i say will kill them or cause them great damage... so why bother listening.. just start thinking about what you are going to say and do, and just let me run out of air, then maybe i will stop talking...


effing bs


I cant wait till i am done, done DONE....


please let it be soon....  And then when she starts telling me all her stuff and issues, i can start thinking about snorkeling and eating and hiking and exploring and on and on, and know, that she isnt doing something differently then what i told her... (pretty soon, time will pass and I wont have told her 'new stuff'... and the old stuff will be long gone and passed)


arrrggghhhh

such insolence

[Learner]

You are too far away from 'daughter' to sort her life out, so...just get on with your hol's eh?

Sooo pleased to read you have been snorkelling, it must be wonderful. You will strengthen your muscles, especially around the spinal area, believe me;  I swim almost a mile a day now, but when I started, I had a job to get 100yds, before the bones/muscles protested!!! It's worth it.

What have you seen down there???? descriptions please, oh yes, and a pic' of the burger!!! not a man vs food type is it?..lol

70 degrees and raining you lucky dog.


Take care, and above all......ENJOY!!!!

[Bergy]

lau lau... pork boneless, placed / wrapped in spinach and then wrapped in Ti leaves... and boiled/steamed maybe on top of lava rocks or on a stove.. whchever is easier.. hehehehe

u throw away the Ti leaves and eat everything else, usually with rice.. and melt in ur mouth goodness.. omg...

as for diving.. not a lot of corals.. in fact none that i can recall.. but then again, i didnt get out and get down very well... im getting there.. and yes. i hope it 'strengthens' everything

especially the CORE

as for rain, it rains here every day.. a little drisle here and there...  but so far it only dropped once, and it was hard.. late at night


my roommate has some underwater cameras... im hoping to take him out with me and get some real pictures...


it would be neat to get an underwater picture of me, at least one you can tell it's me...


  and not some blurry little dark spot...

well, i might be a blurry RED spot.. although i am not really sun burnt, i do have a little glow... heheheheh

[Bergy]

btw: in case you miss greg, he is probably really busy... he is moving this week into his new home... it is a beautiful home and when i was there, they were this close to being ready, but knowing them, they are working at a feverish pace to get 'er done...

Im guessing they will be really busy for about at least another week or two.. Im sure greg will pop in once or twice, but they have a tone of things to do before they are done and kickin back in the ole' sofa...



anyways. i went snokeling again today... it has been a bit breezy.. kinda makes the water choppy and cloudy... gotta go out a bit further to see much, or at least see it like it is supposed to be seen.

anyways we went hiking today.. up above DILLINGHAM air field.. it is a major long runway.. it is a back up for the space shuttle, but has nver been used by it... it is a military air field but they use it for glider rides and skydiving and stuff... anywasy, we hiked up a mountain above that strip,a nd i was told it was an easy to intermediate hike... BS  the effing mountain was huge.. i knew it when i got out of the car.. parked on teh side of the one road that goes around the island, and just walk thru a field and then up a ko'olau...  omg.. i ended up stopping and letting the gang go on by themselves... i waited in the shade and on some rocks for about an hour then walked down.. by that time th gang was about ten minutes behind me... 

it was beautiful. i had to take pics with the cell phone as my camera batteries died..  but, the pics are good enough to figure out i shouldnt have gone up those hills.. hehehehe

we stopped at ARMY beach on teh way back.. again, it was three minutes from where we were, and we were one group out of three groups on this magnificent beach... omg... it wasnt really a coral / snorkeling beach especially with the wind swept conditions, but i saw some Acropora something or other that was about two feet in diameter.. it was yellow with some blue polyps.. about 5ft down... there were colonies all over, some a bit more white, but most where a little yellow colored..

lots and lots of macro algae, just rolling around the sea floor.. i think the common name was merman brush, or bristle brush ... funny how we paid about $10 per little baggie, and there were tons of it all over.

I saw some beautiful encrusting sometghing.. im thinking it was like a setosa something??? lots of Brillant purple color.. and all over... to think i could just take a screw driver and a hammer and snag the biggest pieces ever and plop them into a tank... wow...  and no. you cant do that..   it is a crime to take coral...

I saw lots of hawaiin zebra somethings... and carious other fishies...


it was a good day to snorkel.. i cant wait for the wind to slow down a bit...


anyways. it is sunset and time for me to check out the beach and watch the sun sink into da water li' dat

[Bergy]

ok, so here goes from about two days ago, i decided to go into 'town'... i had to find a BEST BUY.. i bought some nice sennhauser head set/ear phones for my trip so i can listen to music on the plane, and i unpackaged them and threw them into the case and when i used them they had a loose connection...  so i had to replce them within 30 days or lose the warranty or the exchange portion of the warranty.. anyways, as i go into the store, i see ...




I guess i really am in hawaii...


I went to the famrers market in Haleiwa and it was small.. REALLY small.. it was one row with vendors on each side, and it was about 15 booths long... so about 25 vendors...

they had the usual... and i bought some KAVA.. yuckky... made my mouth numb but it was kinda refreshing / thirst quenching...

but, they had these



(Boiled peanuts)  Greg's family loves these... not so much now, but way back when... I couldnt remember for sure if i had them here in HI, or in some other po dunk town i lived in...

then the next day, i found an old favorite of mine, and although they moved and they now have tables and seats, and all that, they still dont take credit card or debit card.. but the food...


Kua' Aina Burger... Ortega burger.. omg... yummmm

[Just_Greg]

actually, mauna = mountain, as in Mauna Kea, which is a contraction of Mauna-o-Wakea, meaning "mountain of the god Wakea".

Ko'olau (which means windward) is the name given to the windward side of a series of blown-out volcano craters, known as "shield craters" on Oahu.

I had to really think to pull that one back out of the ol' memory banks.  As Bill knows, I spent a LOT of time in the islands, so I know a bit about them.  It's REMEMBERING it that's a b!tch...

MMMMMMMMMMMMMM...boiled peanuts and Kua 'Aina burgers!!!!!

yes...we've been busy as the time granny got her titty caught in the wringer, but things are progressing.  we're hoping to move a few empty tanx over so we can "leap frog" the "real" setups to the house over the next couple of weeks.  plenny hana, but mo' bettah fo' us.

[Bergy]

yea, i will be heading up to mauna kea next week... i will be flying over to the big island on wednesday for 7 days... staying at the www.southkonacoffee.net     they have some long and short term rentals.. i am hoping it is totally excellent and i can stay thier long term...  or as long as i can...

and yes, the Ko olau are the ridges of the mountains from being windswpt erosion...

they look like ridges caused by 'beaching' canoes... so it is like the canoes  of the gods  were beached on that side of the island..


not a big big fan of the boiled nuts, but they are good snack.. they had cocoanut flavored boiled peanuts.. ,kinda good smelling but too different for me



and im guessing teh old titted lady got more then her things caught in the clock wringer...

where are you all staying during this move... it sounded like renee really was adamant about not staying in your old house past the deadline...

no matter what...???

also, i know scnrs has some extra tanks, or they used to... also kevin from MAX had some extra tanks... maybe you can use them for a bit till you get your final ones from John???


and thanks for the hawaiin grammar lesson.. your memory is far better then mine

actually, mauna = mountain, as in Mauna Kea, which is a contraction of Mauna-o-Wakea, meaning "mountain of the god Wakea".

Ko'olau (which means windward) is the name given to the windward side of a series of blown-out volcano craters, known as "shield craters" on Oahu.

I had to really think to pull that one back out of the ol' memory banks.  As Bill knows, I spent a LOT of time in the islands, so I know a bit about them.  It's REMEMBERING it that's a b!tch...

MMMMMMMMMMMMMM...boiled peanuts and Kua 'Aina burgers!!!!!

yes...we've been busy as the time granny got her titty caught in the wringer, but things are progressing.  we're hoping to move a few empty tanx over so we can "leap frog" the "real" setups to the house over the next couple of weeks.  plenny hana, but mo' bettah fo' us.

[Bergy]

Also, there is a town here called  Kailua   (kai = water   Lua = bathroom)   so the town is called toilet water....     

this is due to the moutain run off into the bay/ocean... from the air you can really see that the water is not crystal clear blue water... it is a slight green and sometimes brown from the dirt that runs from the river/stream into the ocean...

the town is beautiful and the water is really not dirty, it just kinda looks a bit different then the other beaches...


anyways, PLEASE SEND ME SOME ADDRESS' via PM so i can send out some post cards... PLEASE.


I bought a few dozen cards and have tons of stamps... so, please let me know your address' and i will get these out asap... (before i get back, please)

thanks


and yes, jay, i have yours already...

[Just_Greg]

actually, "the wringer" is in reference to the old-style washers that had a clothes wringer on them (they didn't have a "spin" cycle back in the old days).  What can I say?  It's one of those southern colloquialisms I grew up with.

[Bergy]

oh, i got the reference... hehehehe... the visual has me tarnished/damaged though...


wondering if she has a the nipplering thingy... heheheh

[pinkorchid]

whew...that was alot of reading to catch up on!!!
So fun following you on this journey! Great pictures...

Glad things are going well aside from the few bumps with the original housing set up. Keep the updates coming :)